Increasing weaning age of piglets from 4 to 7 weeks reduces stress, increases post-weaning feed intake but does not improve intestinal functionality [PDF]
Animal, 2010 This study tested the hypothesis that late weaning and the availability of creep feed during the suckling period compared with early weaning, improves feed intake, decreases stress and improves the integrity of the intestinal tract.
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Transcriptomic analysis of the stress response to weaning at housing in bovine leukocytes using RNA-seq technology [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2012 Background Weaning of beef calves is a necessary husbandry practice and involves separating the calf from its mother, resulting in numerous stressful events including dietary change, social reorganisation and the cessation of the maternal-offspring bond ...
O’Loughlin Aran +5 more
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Stress Response at different Ages of Weaning in Cattle [PDF]
International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology, 2019 Weaning is an inherent husbandry practice in cow-calf beef production systems that impose physical, psychological, and nutritional stressors on calves. In order to characterize the main stressors and corresponding stress responses of calves, two weaning schemes were studied.
Odeon, Maria Mercedes +6 more
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Animal, 2009 The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of age at weaning and breed on the stress response of calves to weaning and their temperament. At calving, 14 Parda de Montaña calves and 14 Pirenaica calves were randomly assigned to either early weaning ...
M. Blanco, I. Casasús, J. Palacio
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Alleviating calf weaning stress: the important role of maternal bovine appeasing substance in calf husbandry management [PDF]
Animal BioscienceObjective Weaning stress impairs calf health by causing growth retardation and immune dysfunction, underscoring the need for targeted interventions. Maternal bovine appeasing substance (MBAS) has been proposed as a novel therapy for stress in cattle, but
Tian-Lin Zhang +4 more
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Supplementation of coated sodium butyrate relieved weaning stress and reshaped microbial flora in weaned lambs. [PDF]
Front Vet SciWeaning is an important period in the growth and development of lambs. Thus, effectively reducing the occurrence of weaning stress is critical for maintaining lamb production. Coated sodium butyrate has been shown to reduce inflammation, promote intestinal health, and maintain homeostasis.
Zhao F +6 more
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The Combined Effect of Weaning Stress and Immune Activation during Pig Gestation on Serum Cytokine and Analyte Concentrations [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Weaning stress can elicit changes in the metabolic, hormone and immune systems of pigs and interact with prolonged disruptions stemming from maternal immune activation (MIA) during gestation.
Haley E. Rymut +6 more
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Assessing the relationship between pigs’ stress resilience and their behavior in response to weaning
Frontiers in Animal ScienceIntroductionAs pigs are exposed to multiple stressors in production systems, we must understand their ability to be resilient to a range of environmental challenges to maintain production and welfare.
Bora Lee +5 more
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Developmental Changes of Immunity and Different Responses to Weaning Stress of Chinese Indigenous Piglets and Duroc Piglets during Suckling and Weaning Periods [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 Xiangfeng Kong +2 more
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Evaluation of comingling pigs before weaning to reduce weaning stress [PDF]
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports, 1979 Two trials were conducted to evaluate the management practice of comingling litters one week before weaning to help reduce weaning stress. Pigs which were comingled before weaning gained slightly faster the first two weeks after weaning than pigs mixed ...
A J Thulin, Robert H Hines
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